#suez crisis

[hero-israel]

Genuine question sorry if it's rude I am trying to learn. But from what I understand Jews/Israels returned and reclaimed Jerusalem since it has an attachment to their religion. But if that's the plan why did the Israeli army also try to claim Sinai even though it's Egyptian? Sorry if I badly worded the question English is not my first language

Good question! After Israel was established in 1948, Egypt did not recognize it - not even after signing an armistice. Egypt put a blockade on the Straits of Tiran, restricting or completely stopping Israeli shipping in the Red Sea, cutting them off from all trade in East Africa and from receiving oil from Iran (which was an ally of Israel until 1979).

Israel was going to have a fight with Egypt about this sooner or later, and then in 1956 the UK and France convinced Israel to partner with them in an attack on Egypt. During that fight, Israel occupied the Sinai Peninsula, but they withdrew from it in 1957, considering it sufficient that the blockade at Tiran had been broken. The United Nations was supposed to patrol Sinai and make sure nobody could invade anybody else, but then in 1967 Egypt expelled the UN peacekeepers, re-established their naval blockade, and drove tanks right up to the Israeli border, saying they were about to destroy the entire country. Israel fired the first shot, you've got the Six-Day War, and then Israel took the Sinai back. They established a few settlements in Sinai, but abandoned those and withdrew after the Egypt / Israel peace treaty and recognition in 1979.

#egypt #israel #sinai #sinai peninsula #suez crisis #six day war #jumblr

[ratuszarsenal]

almost every modern AU of Tintin sucks balls, but the image of an exasperated Haddock being stuck in the Suez canal during the Ever Given crisis is the funniest shit under the sun

#he would be so PISSED #I can't stop laughing thinking about this #he facetimes Tintin whose quarantining in Brussels like #'lad get me out of here I can't handle another day of this' #tintin #the adventures of tintin #captain haddock #suez crisis #ever given

[homeosloven]

LOL. LMAO EVEN

#suez crisis

[everydayesterday]

today is the second anniversary of the evergiven getting stuck in the suez canal.  

fun fact about another time the suez canal was blocked...my grandfather helped negotiate the end of the suez crisis in 1956 as a member of canada’s external affairs team.  canada’s intervention led to the invention of modern-day peacekeeping, and also to a new canadian flag (the red maple leaf design; previously it had been a design that included the british union jack ensign, which the egyptians didn’t want to see on any “peacekeepers,” seeing as britain supported/joined israel’s aggression).

#me #my grandfather #canada #suez crisis

[bananzie]

Anthony Eden fucking deserved to be disgraced for the Suez Crisis and at no single point could he have made a WORSE decision than the one he made. The only thing he could’ve done in addition to make it worse is drop a fucking nuke on either the US or the USSR but he didn’t and instead he fucked up so badly that in the middle of the goddamn Cold War both the US and the USSR agreed that he was a buttfuckery of a man that needed to get the fuck out and no I will not shut up about this

#suez crisis #it happened in the 1950s but I stfg I will never let it go #history #the uk #british history #egyptian history #hyper fixation #when your hyper fixation actually is your finals #it’s finals week #and I’m passionate about it #fucking sue me #I’ll win

[tangerine-dream-machine]

"just ignore him", part 2

Sometimes it's best to just leave before things get messy...

Part 1

#hws america #hws england #usuk #alfred f jones #arthur kirkland #aph america #aph england #loosely inspired by but not based on the suez crisis #no bonus bc my ipad fuckin broke :( #tangerine draws

[agp]

'the international community' greenlighting current israeli policy is one thing but americans insisting that biden can dictate israeli policy is another thing entirely. yes his green light is providing the most leverage. yes americans have heavy influence over israeli policy. but they do not dictate it.

israel is a bourgeois state like any other and its policy reflects the interests of its ruling class. it is a settler colonial enterprise for the exploitation of natural and human resources. it is a site of capitalist productivity, just like bidens america. both he and israeli political leadership are beholden to these class interests.

any pressure american politicians put on their israeli counterparts is done within the delicate balance of these interests - that is, in a context of bourgeois dictatorship. which is to say if anything is dictating israeli policy, it is its national bourgeoisie, and other factors are secondary to their interests.

what complicates things is how much the israeli bourgeoisie has depended on western governments for material, financial, and diplomatic support in their settler colonial project. this does not suddenly reverse the relationship of class and politics, but leads to greater political consideration of american, canadian, british, french, german, etc interests, which i repeat are the interests of their own national bourgeoisie under the current political arrangement.

america may be an imperialist superpower with puppets, and we can argue all day about whether israel qualifies as a one, but my point here is that even the most heavily controlled bourgeois imperialist puppet gets its strings pulled not directly from the imperialist power that enforced the establishment of a local bourgeoisie, but by the existing social relations of production and the classes they produce. imperialism can enforce capitalism, but it is ultimately the becoming-proletarian and becoming-bourgeois of the colonized by their very relationship to labor and production that dictates policy under capitalism.

to reiterate, biden doesnt dictate israeli policy, let alone american policy. the ruling class does

#also does no one know about the suez crisis #perfect example of the national bourgeoisie carrying out its interests despite american opposition #or at least attempting to its not like it worked

[summerfevers]

speaking it into existence right now i will get at least a b in every class this semester

#if you have thoughts about institutional critique OR the suez crisis of 1956 hmu #poplars.txt #school tag

[bagnabraghe]

La stagione neoatlantista della Democrazia Cristiana

Le scelte di politica internazionale che furono prese dall’Italia a partire dall’immediato dopoguerra furono le scelte di politica internazionale di Alcide De Gasperi. Le incertezze che l’Italia ebbe nel percorso di inserimento nello schieramento occidentale furono le incertezze di Alcide De Gasperi, così come i successi. La scomparsa dello statista trentino non poteva, dunque, non provocare una…

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#1954 #1956 #1958 #Alcide De Gasperi #Aldo Moro #Amintore Fanfani #Antonio Segni #crisi #Democrazia Cristiana #Enrico Mattei #estera #Giuseppe Pella #governo #internazionale #Italia #Luca Di Giandomenico #neoatlantismo #politica #Suez

[bigarella]

La stagione neoatlantista della Democrazia Cristiana

Le scelte di politica internazionale che furono prese dall’Italia a partire dall’immediato dopoguerra furono le scelte di politica internazionale di Alcide De Gasperi. Le incertezze che l’Italia ebbe nel percorso di inserimento nello schieramento occidentale furono le incertezze di Alcide De Gasperi, così come i successi. La scomparsa dello statista trentino non poteva, dunque, non provocare una…

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#1954 #1956 #1958 #Alcide De Gasperi #Aldo Moro #Amintore Fanfani #Antonio Segni #crisi #Democrazia Cristiana #Enrico Mattei #estera #Giuseppe Pella #governo #internazionale #Italia #Luca Di Giandomenico #neoatlantismo #politica #Suez

[enriquemzn262]

Found my dad’s old United Nations bracelet, dated 1957, when he was part of the Batallón Colombia #2, Colombia’s contribution to the first United Nations Emergency Force, formed to deal with the Suez Crisis between Egypt and Israel.

I quite like it! For something almost 70 years old, it’s in surprisingly great shape.

#un #united nations

[intersectionalpraxis]

Full Text:

UK and US striking Yemen - analysis

Last night's strikes on Yemen were severely limited to 76 strikes with about 100 missiles.

Sky News Arabia reported that America had briefed the Houthis before the strikes to prevent a "greater escalation of the war", meaning the whole circus was staged just to show some muscle to the world.

From here, the Houthis have already carried out a complete evacuation of the bases for several days, and most likely they have hidden all the equipment in their mountainous regions.

The strikes were mainly on observation posts and an empty military base, which the Houthis joke that only Saudi Arabia has announced since 2015 that it has destroyed it 3 times. However, 11 members of the movement died from those bombings.

The US cannot afford a major regional war in any case, because in that case it is clear to everyone that Israel will be gone. After all, many analysts in the West also stated that.

The Houthis have threatened to strike the oil platforms in Saudi Arabia and the UAE, which will cause a huge jump in the price of oil and a major economic crisis in Europe, which is very dependent on this oil.

On the other hand, all the Biden administration has managed to achieve is to completely close the Suez Canal as a route for commercial ships, not only to Israel but also those to Europe and the United States. Great economic damage.

Immediately after the US and UK launched the strikes, the Houthis hit back with ballistic missiles and US bases across Syria and Iraq were again attacked. Which shows that if the US enters a war in the Middle East in the name of Israel, it will bear great consequences. It will be a war on a grand scale.

What still keeps on Israel breathing is the fact that both sides (US and Iran) are avoiding a major conflict and regional war. The conflict is for now confined to the territory of Israel, which is suffering heavy military and economic damage, while taking out its fury on civilians in Gaza.

This whole show, in my opinion, was performed to divert all attention from the international court of justice where Israel is accused of the genocide it is committing in Gaza by South Africa.

#feminist #feminism #social justice #free palestine #palestine #free gaza #settler violence #settler colonialism #free yemen #houthis #yemen #united kingdom #united states #western imperialism #us imperialism #uae #world politics #biden administration #current events #current news

[useless-englandfacts]

No offence but isn't this an England blog and not a Palestine blog?

full offence but here's some homework for you! a list of things i want you to google:

the balfour declaration

the sinai and palestine campaign during WW1

what happened to the ottoman empire at the end of WW1

the league of nations' mandate for palestine

mandatory palestine, 1920-1948 (pay close attention to the flag because i think it'll appear quite familiar)

the peel commission

the woodhead commission

suez crisis (more to do with egypt but still relevant vis a vis israel)

so weird how britain pops up in every single one of those incidents!

also i shouldn't have to say this but there are some things in the world that are more important than keeping a tumblr blog 'on theme'.

#asks #anonymous #palestine #israel #admin dominique

[zvaigzdelasas]

Yemen’s Houthi rebels claim to have a new, hypersonic missile in their arsenal, Russia’s state media reported Thursday[...]

The report by the state-run RIA Novosti news agency cited an unidentified official but provided no evidence for the claim. [...]

However, the Houthis have for weeks hinted about “surprises” they plan for the battles at sea to counter the United States and its allies,[...]

On Thursday, Abdul Malik al-Houthi, the Houthis’ secretive supreme leader, said the rebels will start hitting ships heading toward the Cape of Good Hope in Africa’s southern tip. Until now, the rebels have largely struck ships heading into the Red Sea toward the Suez Canal, and such an escalation would target the longer, alternative route used by some vessels. It remains unclear how they would carry any possible assault out.

Oh my God [14 Mar 24]

[racefortheironthrone]

With how much focus she has received since the beginning of the Krakoa era, what are your thoughts on Storm ? And do you agree on the perception that she's becoming something of a Mary Sue?

I’m going to start with a mini-rant about the Mary Sue.

To the extent that there is any validity to the term at all, it is solely and exclusively within the realm of fanfiction. A Mary Sue is an OC (original character) whose supposed annoying omni-competence is really secondary to the main problem with the character, which is that they warp the narrative away from the main characters of the source material - Kirk and Spock or Picard and Data stop doing things that drive the plot, and instead just stand around asking "where's Poochie?"

Outside of fanfiction and in the realm of the media that gives rise to fanfiction, a prominent character who is incredibly talented and powerful and who makes the plot center around them is called a fucking protagonist - so no, Rey isn’t a Mary Sue, Carol Danvers isn’t a Mary Sue, Katniss Everdeen isn't a Mary Sue - none of them are Mary Sues and anyone who claims otherwise is showing that they have deep-seated Issues with female protagonists in their fiction.

Is Storm a Mary Sue?

Even if we weren't talking about the most prominent black woman character in fiction, I would consider this question pretty damn offensive, both because no one would ever ask this question about a male character and - in a franchise packed to the gills with hyper-powerful women who make the plots revolve around them and who even get the complementary Love Triangle - no one sends me asks about any of those (white) women.

But to answer your question: no, Storm is not a Mary Sue - she's the main character of the X-Men.

See, when Chris Claremont took over X-Men in 1975, he did so with a brand-new cast of characters, the so-called "All-New, All-Different X-Men." In no small part because they were far more diverse and more colorful than the O5 (suburban WASPs one and all), most of these characters would become break-out stars and the core of the X-Men from that day to this.

However, Claremont didn't vibe with all of the All-New X-Men equally: he had Sunfire quit the team (repeatedly), he killed off Thunderbird for shock value (a death that has only been reversed this last year), he would have killed off Wolverine if John Byrne hadn't stopped him (Claremont would later turn around on Logan once he worked out his voice), etc.

But one character that he vibed with right from the beginning was Ororo Monroe. From the very beginning, Claremont's Storm is the most powerful of the All-New X-Men, both in terms of her powers and in terms of her personality, being the only person who can face down Logan. At the same time, she's complicated by her struggles with crippling claustrophobia caused by the Suez Crisis-induced trauma of her childhood.

After a few years, Claremont tired of the African Nature Goddess routine and had Storm experience an almost total transformation that nonetheless was completely grounded in her character. Feeling overly limited by the total emotional control required of her powers, Ororo undergoes a subtextual lesbian awakening in Tokyo's underground punk scene and emerges out the other side a free spirit, leader of the X-Men, and Queen of the Morlocks.

In his most audacious move in LifeDeath I and II, Claremont had Storm lose her powers thanks to Forge's anti-mutant tech - and then defeat Cyclops in a duel for command of the X-Men without her powers - and then regain her powers in an epic cycle that saw the X-Men die and be reborn as outlaw heroes in the Australian Outback.

In sum, Storm was clearly Claremont's favorite character and, as a result had the most interesting character journey over his 16-year run on X-Men.

Storm in Krakoa

And then Storm basically lay fallow for almost thirty years. In no small part due to the pioneering work done by Claremont with this character, later writers were frankly too intimidated to touch the character and so starting in the 90s, Storm was increasingly sidelined in the comics in favor of the characters that were commercially "hot" at the time - Wolverine and Gambit, especially.

In the 2000s, the most significant thing to happen to Storm was her marriage to T'challa. While I think Reggie Hudlin had mostly good intentions with this decision - he wanted to create a black power couple at Marvel and thus put together Marvel's most prominent black man and black woman into a relationship - the result was to make Storm a supporting character in Black Panther comics, rather than a main character in X-Men comics.

I would argue that it is only recently with the advent of Al Ewing as a major writer in the X-office with S.W.O.R.D, X-Men Red, and Storm and the Brotherhood of Mutants that we've gotten a writer who's not afraid to write Storm as she deserves to be written - as the most powerful of the X-Men, the Regent of Arrako and the Voice of Sol, the standard-bearer of Magneto's legacy, and a woman trying to balance the demands of two planets and her own desires.

#X-men #x men meta #xmen #xmen meta #krakoa #chris claremont #ororo munroe #storm

[phoenixyfriend]

Possible verbiage for calls to senators and representatives, emails to the same, and public calls to action:

This past weekend, an American service member, active duty, self-immolated in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington DC. We are told that this man, Aaron Bushnell, age 25, truly believed in the ideals espoused by the US military, that he truly believed in liberty for all and a person's right to self-determination. What he did was not an act of mental illness, but rather an act of protest. It was premeditated. It was clearly stated. It was public, and recorded, and he has died making a statement, and it is truly inappropriate to try and dismiss it as simply a matter of mental illness.

It's a tragedy, but he is someone who has made choice to follow in the footsteps of many who have come before. Self-immolation is, after all, a protest tactic that has been in use for centuries, including in the US. If you have any true care for military personnel and veterans, as you and so many other politicians claim to, then you should be asking yourself, "What it is about this war that has caused such a choice in someone who really and truly believes in the ideals that the US claims to uphold? What it means that someone in this military, in this country, cannot stand to continue being part of that institution, in light of what the United States is enabling with aid packages to Israel, and refusal to enact any kind of censure?"

What caused the death of Aaron Bushnell was not a mental health crisis. It was a humanitarian one.

If you claim to care about protecting children, Israel must be censured. Israel must be sanctioned. Israel must be stopped.

We are seeing Israel seed the beginning of its own future devastation. It has created thousands, if not tens of thousands of orphans, and has reportedly disabled the majority of the children in Gaza, from what we are hearing. Israel has also demanded the dismantling of UNRWA, is even now blocking aid trucks and has been for weeks, despite the fact that the agency is currently the only thing that appears to be standing between the children of Palestine and death, between everyone in Palestine and a death by mass starvation. We know, have now gotten confirmation from the World Health Organization, that a famine is in progress. If you care about any power that the United Nations should have to prevent atrocities, then Israel must be stopped. Aid must get to the children, and to all the civilians of Gaza who are currently dying of bombing, and hunger, and disease.

Civilians are exiting to Egypt, a country that is already unstable, not yet having recovered from the Arab Spring. The economy of Egypt is already under strain, from the Civil War, the new administrative capital, the reduction of traffic in the Suez, and they have not yet cleared themselves of the Muslim Brotherhood. Will those orphans Israel created be found by extremists who share many of the same goals as the one that Israel claims to be trying to extinguish? Will Israel start a war with Egypt when those children they have orphaned in Gaza grow old enough to seek revenge? What of its other border, where Hezbollah has increased attacks, or the months of impact by Yemen on international trade? Israel is not extinguishing the threats to its people, but increasing them. If you care about Israeli civilians, as you claim, then Israel must be stopped.

Recently, in Russia, a political opposition member died in an arctic prison under mysterious circumstances. This was very high-profile, and the US enacted sanctions within a week. Those sanctions were deserved, yes, but it is a very poor look on behalf of the United States that we enacted sanctions on Russia for the death of one man, but nothing on Israel for the death of nearly thirty thousand, half of which are children. If you care about the reputation that the United States has on a world stage, Israel should be under censure.

And finally, if you care about your own party and your own hide, Israel must be stopped. You are losing Michigan. You are losing Georgia. You are losing Arizona. Some of these states won us the 2020 election. Some of them won on the power of the Arab-American vote. We cannot afford another four years of Trump.

Even if you don't have the heart to care for the hundreds of thousands of children that are dead or dying, you should have the brain to care about Michigan.

A member of the Air Force died to make you listen. A loyal soldier to the US decided that rather than die for his country fighting a war, he would die to stop one.

Listen to him, and to all who tell you that the US cannot be complicit in what, every day, is more likely to be remembered forever as a genocide.

(Call your reps)

(A more general post on how to talk to your reps)

This has not been proofread but I keep rolling phrases around in my mind and had to get at least something down in the page.

#current events #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #free palestine #united states #Russia #foreign affairs #death tw #suicide tw #self immolation #politics #Phoenix Politics